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Plant Based

Heart-Healthy Grain, Greens, Beans and Sweet Potato Casserole With Benefits

Meg Wolff | Posted 04.14.2013 | Healthy Living
Meg Wolff

What we eat really does matter. Studies show that real, whole, plant-based foods are best for fueling our bodies, preventing the likes of heart disease, diabetes -- and, yes, even cancer.

Comforting Hot and Sour Soup (Vegan-, Oil-, Wheat- and Gluten-Free)

Meg Wolff | Posted 12.02.2012 | Healthy Living
Meg Wolff

I find this type of soup a welcome respite, a warm and soothing combination of vegetables and thickened broth packed with powerful nutrients, without a ton of fat calories.

Plant-Based Meals: A Good Place to Start

Meg Wolff | Posted 05.26.2012 | Home
Meg Wolff

If you're looking to add more plant-based meals into your household, start with something your family will already eat. White beans were the perfect bean to introduce into my family's meals.

Plant-Based: A Hearty Bean, Grain and Vegetable Soup That's Also Wheat- and Gluten-Free (Video)

Meg Wolff | Posted 03.12.2012 | Healthy Living
Meg Wolff

Because I eat a whole-foods, plant-based diet with a minimal amount of processed foods, it isn't a huge stretch for me to remove wheat- or gluten-containing ingredients. It didn't take a lot to adapt this recipe.

Antibiotics With Your Thanksgiving Leftovers?

Josh Tetrick | Posted 01.26.2012 | Impact
Josh Tetrick

Spit out that Thanksgiving leftover ham and pick up a barf bag. Because even the hardy Pilgrims would take a pass on some of those leftovers if they k...

Quick Plant-Based Meal: One-Pot Powerhouse Chickpeas! (Wheat- & Gluten-Free)

Meg Wolff | Posted 12.03.2011 | Home
Meg Wolff

Leafy greens like spinach and kale, and the other ingredients in this dish, including sweet potato, and onion help make Powerhouse Chickpeas a nutrient-dense meal.

This Is How We Do It: 11 Amazing Vegan Recipes

Nil Zacharias | Posted 10.29.2011 | Home
Nil Zacharias

2011-08-29-Screenshot20110829at1.52.28PM.jpg These recipes taste as delicious as they look.

Undercover Investigation of a Dog Factory Farm

Josh Tetrick | Posted 09.11.2011 | Green
Josh Tetrick

Last week, the animal protection organization Mercy For Animals released a video taken undercover by an employee wearing a hidden camera at a dog fact...

Dog: The Other White Meat

Josh Tetrick | Posted 08.26.2011 | Home
Josh Tetrick

Why save dogs, but eat other animals? Pigs are more intelligent. They can dream, recognize their own names, fetch a tennis ball, and lead social lives of a complexity previously observed only in primates. Some even enjoy cuddling.

Where Are You?

Josh Tetrick | Posted 08.22.2011 | Home
Josh Tetrick

Where are you? Three rows of masks hang on the wall. Barbed-wire encircles the building. Enormous sets of fans bang. Machines power on intermittently...

Want to Make Eating Better Easier? Follow a Hero's Advice

Meg Wolff | Posted 07.04.2011 | Home
Meg Wolff

One of the world's leading experts on plant-based eating was in my neck of the woods (Greater Portland, Maine) this week, and it was a great thrill to...

Meatless Monday: Earth Day Friday Extra -- Keep it Cool

Ellen Kanner | Posted 06.21.2011 | Green
Ellen Kanner

It's Earth Day, how cool is that? Plenty cool, if you do it right. Good thing, too. It's been a year since the Gulf oil spill, a month since the...

A Great Way to Get Off to a Lucky Start Each Day

Meg Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Meg Wolff

Some call it the luck of the Irish, but I'm half Irish and I like to believe that what fuels my luck (and health) is eating a healthy breakfast!

Alicia Silverstone On Living Your Best Life

Huffington Post | Priyanka Boghani | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

If you really want to make a change on this planet, a plant-based diet is the easiest, fastest way to get there.